Activate Series: #4 - How Did Hugh Hefner Influence Circle Time in the Classroom?
September 28, 2017 11:48

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Amidst all of the hot takes on Playboy magazine tycoon Hugh Hefner’s death, there lies a little-known door Hefner opened that paved the way for pornography to enter our public schools. Illicit images and printed materials certainly didn’t start with Hefner, although the sexual revolution and eroding social mores of the 1960s and 70s helped him largely normalize them. But it was his financing of Planned Parenthood Medical Director Dr. Mary Calderone’s organization, SIECUS, in 1964, that aimed these normalization efforts directly at our children. Today, we know the results of this partnership as “comprehensive sex education.”

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